Archive for November, 2008

Many people are perhaps still a little unclear of what jQuery Impromptu really is. Its not just a lightbox or dialog. Its actually a small framework to process forms utilizing ajax; and along the way it happened to solve the ugly default confirm and alert problem. It works by first allowing the user to supply [...]

I was thumbing through Digg today when I come across an article showing “12 Excellent Free Text Editors“. I’ve tried a few of these, infact I do like a few of them for what they are, but after recently using Coda and Textmate I have to admit these two really set the standard for doing [...]

After upgrading Ubuntu to 8.10 I was upset to find out that my virtual hosts in apache no longer seem to work. Everything went to the default host. After doing a little research I found that in ports.conf they have now specified the port in NameVirtualHost: NameVirtualHost *:80 When it use to be: NameVirtualHost * [...]

I’m please to say that there is a new Impromptu theme available on the Impromptu Documentation site. The theme is demonstrated in Example 15. I have also upgraded the examples and demos to use the latest jQuery. No changes to Impromptu were necessary in the jQuery 1.2.6 upgrade!

Lately I’ve had a few users indicate they’ve had errors in Impromptu only with IE. I finally was able to replicate this error. The error indicates that its on line 89: jqi.css({ position: “absolute”, top: “100px”, left: “50%”, marginLeft: ((((jqi.css(”paddingLeft”).split(”px”)[0]*1) + jqi.width())/2)*-1) }); I had been using Impromptu all week and it had been working [...]